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Showing 1 to 20 of 567 for “"Amazon"”.
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Amazon here
… transit line from O'Hare Airport to downtown; Amazon provides CIA data and security services for sensitive information. Willingly or reluctantly, governments are handing over civic infrastructure to these companies. While reshaping the public realm at an unprecedented pace, tech companies also …
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Ecological Knowledge Center, Amazon
… the Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of Amazonian communities and their sustainable indigenous architecture. Over centuries, these communities have profoundly influenced the Amazon rainforests through their distinctive lifestyles, cultural practices, and ancestral knowledge. My research …
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The impacts of Amazon deforestation on Pacific climate
… El Niño Southern Oscillation are known to affect Amazonian precipitation, but to what extent do changing Amazonian vegetation and rainfall impact eastern Pacific SST? The Amazon rainforest is threatened by many factors including climate change and clearing for agricultural reasons. Forest fires …
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Major element geochemistry of the Amazon River system
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1980.
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Voice Control of Fetch Robot Using Amazon Alexa
… virtual assistants, such as Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google Assistant, do not currently have any physical functions. As an important part of the internet of things (IoT), the field of robotics has become a new trend in the usage of VA. In this project, a mobile robot, Fetch, is …
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Sustainable development and development banks in the Brazilian Amazon
… the processes of development in the Brazilian Amazon, particularly the role of development banks (DBs) in those processes. It carries out that task by analyzing the performance of two multilateral development banks (MDBs), namely the World Bank Group and the Inter-American Development Bank, as …
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Microwave Remote Sensing of Saharan Ergs and Amazon Vegetation
… characteristics of the Sahara desert and the Amazon vegetation. Radar and radiometric responses of the Saharan ergs are related to geophysical properties of sand formations and near surface winds. The spatial and temporal variability of the Amazon vegetation is studied using multi-frequency …
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Characterizing and improving the service level agreement at Amazon
Amazon's Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a promise to its customers that they will receive their orders on time. At the Fulfillment Center (FC) level, the SLA is based on the capability to fulfill open orders scheduled to ship at each departure time. Each center's capability depends on a complex …
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Geochemistry of alkaline-earth elements in the Amazon River
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, 1979.
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Multi echelon supply chain design for Amazon private brands
… made e-retailers to re-think their supply chain. Amazon began its journey in Private-Label Brands (PB) in 2009 with the launch of Amazon Basics. Since then, it has expanded its presence across multiple categories. The majority of these products are imported from Asia-Pacific region (APAC) and …
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Interactions of hydrology and climate in the Amazon basin
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1993.
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Least Cost Path Modeling Between Inka and Amazon Civilizations
… may have connected to sites in the western Amazon Basin. Our approach further used the known Inka Road network to test performance of two types of LCP models (linear vs. areal calculation) and four types of cost functions. LCPs can be calculated with an areal approach, where each cell of the …
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Cost and rents to logging in the Brazilian Amazon
The logging industry of the Amazon is a topic that has received little attention in the literature, beyond specific single firm case studies. This has not allowed estimation of cost and production functions that can be used to predict changes in the industry in response to external market factors …
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A Political Ecology of Oil Palm in the Peruvian Amazon
Peru’s Amazon region is one of the newest fronts in a growing national and international interest in oil palm production. State legislation and market incentives have accelerated the growth of the industry by promoting large-scale investment and land acquisition. Based on an examination of the …
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A Multiple Classifier System for Predicting Best-Selling Amazon Products
<p>In this work, I examine a dataset of Amazon product metadata and propose a heterogeneous multiple classifier system for the task of identifying best-selling products in multiple categories. This system of classifiers consumes the product description and the featured product image as input and …
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National economic development and tropical deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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Amazon UK transshipment stow process analysis through discrete event simulation
This thesis investigated Amazon's implementation of transshipment, the act of moving inventory between fulfillment centers to facilitate order fulfillment, inventory rebalancing, and operational cost reduction. The role of transshipment in Amazon's fulfillment center network was explored and a …
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Measuring the Functionality of Amazon Alexa and Google Home Applications
Voice Personal Assistant (VPA) is a software agent, which can interpret the user's voice commands and respond with appropriate information or action. The users can operate the VPA by voice to complete multiple tasks, such as read the message, order coffee, send an email, check the news, and so on. …
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Expansión internacional de Amazon: estrategia, experiencias, efectos y desafíos por delante
… fue identificar los efectos que la llegada de Amazon genera en una nueva región, además de los desafíos que tiene esta compañía por delante en términos de expansión. Para esto, se realizó un trabajo de tipo descriptivo, bajo una metodología de investigación cualitativa con estudio de caso único …
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